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Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on May 27, 2015 news conference
"It’s commercial vehicles, 18 wheelers and above … that cause 90 plus percent of the damages on our highways and bridges."  
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By Mark Reynolds • July 19, 2015
Megyn Kelly
Megyn Kelly
stated on May 13, 2015 a broadcast of "The Kelly File"
The lack of an automatic braking system that could have prevented the Philadelphia Amtrak crash "wasn't driven by a lack of funding. It just takes a while. They (Congress) just passed it in the recent past."
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By Jon Greenberg • May 18, 2015
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on May 13, 2015 remarks to reporters
"It is simply a fact that insufficient funding for Amtrak has delayed the installation" of a positive train control safety system. "To deny a connection between the (derailment in Philadelphia) and underfunding Amtrak is to deny reality."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2015
Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com
stated on March 31, 2015 a news report
Delta has had the most animal deaths among U.S. carriers in the past five years
Half-True
By April Hunt • April 29, 2015
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on April 1, 2015 a speech
Austin has "gone from being the 24th most congested city just about 10 years ago to being the fourth most congested — more congested than NYC."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 28, 2015
Jim Steineke
Jim Steineke
stated on November 19, 2014 a tweet
The streetcar project planned by Mayor Tom Barrett would be a "1900s style trolley."
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By James B. Nelson • January 16, 2015
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on October 25, 2014 a Let's Go Austin mailer
"The Austin Tea Party and an ultra-conservative millionaire are behind the" campaign against the city’s light-rail proposition.
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 29, 2014
No Tax For Tracks
No Tax For Tracks
stated on September 30, 2014 an email newsletter
The Greenlight Pinellas 1-cent sales tax "is permanent, we never get to vote on this again."
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By Joshua Gillin • October 14, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 10, 2014 a fundraising email
"All Aboard Florida is receiving millions in Florida taxpayer dollars."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2014
No Tax For Tracks
No Tax For Tracks
stated on April 9, 2014 a website post
"Light rail does not reduce congestion."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • July 3, 2014
Texas Future
Texas Future
stated on May 8, 2014 a web video
"One thousand people a day are moving to Texas, which means there will be 15 million more people over the next 25 years."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 22, 2014
Matt Caldwell
Matt Caldwell
stated on April 30, 2014 a Florida House discussion of SB 392
There is no "incontrovertible proof that speed, in and of itself, is the contributing factor to increasing (vehicular) fatalities."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • May 12, 2014
Bob Cole
Bob Cole
stated on March 31, 2014 morning radio show on KOKE-FM
Capital Metro originally said MetroRail's yearly operating costs would be "about $2.5 million. Last year ... it cost $13 million to operate."
Half-True
By Sue Owen • April 24, 2014
Chris Chocola
Chris Chocola
stated on March 19, 2014 an op-ed supporting Senate candidate Chris McDaniel
Says Sen. Thad Cochran "voted to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ... the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska instead of shifting the money to repair a bridge damaged by Hurricane Katrina."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2014
Tom Graves
Tom Graves
stated on March 7, 2014 a speech
When it comes to transportation funds, Georgians spend more in taxes and on red tape than they get back from the federal government.
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • March 7, 2014
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 7, 2014 a tweet
Texas added 6,600 miles of highway from 2001-2012, more than any other state.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • January 28, 2014
Sid Covington
Sid Covington
stated on October 28, 2013 an opinion column by Sid Covington, the district's chairman of the board
A planning group said that to meet anticipated traffic demands by 2035, Interstate 35 between Austin and Round Rock will need a dozen additional lanes going north and 14 additional southbound lanes.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 6, 2013
Earl Blumenauer
Earl Blumenauer
stated on September 24, 2013 an article on his website.
Says "between 6 and 20 bicycles can be parked in the space required by one car."
Half-True
By Dana Tims • October 9, 2013
Kathleen Vinehout
Kathleen Vinehout
stated on August 24, 2013 a column
Because of Gov. Scott Walker’s budgeting, a greater percentage of general fund tax dollars is "going to pay off debt than ever before in our history."
Half-True
September 2, 2013
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on August 22, 2013 an interview
"Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa already have 70 mph" speed limits on rural interstates, and "we see that they’ve been able to do it safely."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • September 1, 2013
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